I suspect that he's a dirt jumper ragging on racing subliminally. Probably jealous that BMX RACING made it into the Olympics before Dirt Jumping. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/diablo.gif) Frankly I was surprised to after Snowboarding got in the Winter Olympics. I would had thought freestyle/dirt jumping would had been the natural Summer compliment. Imagine my-our-pleasant surprise it was racing. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sun_bespectacled.gif)

And back in the old days, when racing was held only on Saturdays and Sundays (at least, in my neck of the woods), that left five days for jumping, riding trails, sneaking into the empty public pool to ride it, getting chased off the pedestrian mall by the rent-a-cops, sneaking on the roof of Vassar College's new gym (it had a gigantic recessed bowl in the roof, and we rode it), and pretty much jumping our bikes off of whatever we could get a lift from, and riding them wherever we could. And it was all BMX. And it all still is.

The dude in this with the long hair and '77 Ted Nugent 'stache (sorry man, I forgot your name. I am horrible with names) was KILLING the rhythm room @ Ray's a few months ago when I was there. Trail riding is like the Filet Mignon of BMX: the tenderest, juiciest part of the sport with all the tough, gristly, racing aspect removed (lame analogy, I know, but it's true)